Among a host of dubious crypto-traditions we have had the nonsense of Sephardi dreidels, but it is interesting to see the process of how these imagined traditions are created. The poster of this picture in Belmonte claims oil lamps like this are 'for many the last link with their ancestral Judaism', but then acknowledges that such lamps are common objects in Portuguese culture. In other words a common cultural object has been 'Judaicized' to evidence a possibly imagined tradition. I am interested to know how long it is before this is doing the rounds on media and such lamps start being sold as Jewish heritage ...